A Study A study on the formation process and Learning Experience of Youth in the Village-Based Youth Community : Focusing on the case of 'Wing Wing'

This study was conducted with the purpose of interpreting the process of community formation and their learning experiences by focusing on cases where young people organized and practiced a community based on their villages to solve their own problems and community issues. To understand this, we selected the D City youth community ‘WingWing’ and conducted a case study. The main research results show that the process of forming a village-based youth community grew from the ‘germination stage: a flexible collective based on the needs of each young person’ to the ‘expansion stage: an activist group that engages in youth issues as a young person’ and the ‘sustaining stage: a village community that creates connections and coexistence with the village.’ The young people discover a new identity as village activists and, based on their successful experiences, continuously seek new experiments in the village. And, as they overcome conflicts and crises, they dream of a community that coexists with the village in a reciprocal solidarity manner. We found that there are environmental factors at the village level that drive the learning of members, and we suggested that it is important to expand the contact points where village members can solidarity in a community-based manner and expand learning.